Showing posts with label myspace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label myspace. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

How The Top Performing Brands Are Growing Fans On Facebook

Everyone looking for the Formula - How do the top performing brands become the top performers? Let me tell you for sure, They do not do magic and they are not born famous. In this article you will read how they have become what they are and how even you can achieve what they have:

1.    First and foremost it is essential to determine the key audiences which form the major communities of Facebook. There are three major audiences:

•    Joiners: they form the major percentage of audiences which can go as high as 83%. These people just join your community. Their participation ends here. Once they have joined, they forget about your community and do not put in any effort to promote it. Therefore as much as they look like they are vast in numbers, here’s a number-zero. That is what they are accountable for and you should not pay attention to them much.

•    Sharers: These people, though low in numbers (15%), they are much more active than the joiners and should be paid more attention. They share your posts, participate in your campaigns and make more and more people aware of your existence. The “friends of friends” metric is reached by them.

•    Advocates: these people are very low in number comparatively (1.5 %), but do not go into the numbers as these people make you who you are. They have the ability to make or break you. They do the sharers’ work and also convince other communities to join you.

2.    Constantly offer various ways to make your fans engage. This is possible by holding various campaigns, competitions and giving away free gifts. Maybe initially it will seem like a waste but later this stuff will make your brand gold.

3.    Tell them constantly which posts to follow, which links to follow and what questions to answer. This way the audience will know how to promote your brand in ways it will actually matter.

4.    It is really important to know which posts should be posted when. If you post extremely important stuff in a time where it does not matter at all (like posting about woolens in summers), your effort will go to a waste and people will stop looking forward to anything else you have to offer.

5.    People will not share as many advertisements and promotions as they will share a quiz especially the one which is more related to them for eg. A personality quiz. People want to hear about themselves and know about themselves. This makes them feel personal and special.

6.    Don’t just stick with Facebook. The more social media outlets, the better. Try Twitter, Instagram, Google+, Myspace, Youtube, Tumbir, Pinterest and even a blog. It is never enough. Your brand growth will take place in multiples if you use all of them. So there is basically no reason for you to avoid them.

Now that you know, how the top performing brands became who they are, follow all the tips religiously and smartly and your brand will surely gain the popularity it deserves.

Friday, November 23, 2012

9 Social Media Marketing Pointers To Change Your Business

If you have a business, you would like to change or improve or even start, today you will learn about a few social media marketing pointers for changing your business.

1.    You should always make sure that your page, blog or website is always up to date. Nobody will want to visit it unless it provides the current information about your business. Whether you have started some new business, a new discount of some kind, promotion or coupon, verify that it is mentioned on the website, blog or page.

2.    Many Facebook apps are available which provide you the opportunity of holding many contests. Nothing excites people for winning something in return for nothing. This way you can have a win-win situation in which both you and the customer is happy. In these contests however, you have to make sure your brand is visible enough for the customer to register it in his mind. If you won’t have a lingering effect on their psyche, everything will be a waste.

3.    Using of social media outlets is very essential. You can be rest assured that it is never enough. Though Facebook is the most popular, it won’t hurt to use Twitter, Myspace or Google + too as all it will do is earn you profits.

4.    Be yourself, show yourself. Follow this rule and you will not be disappointed. Just because of the fact that you are a businessperson, you don’t have to act all corporate. As a matter of fact, people will support you more if they can identify a face and a human touch behind your business.

5.    Listen to your customers. They are just laymen. They are taking time to invest in your page and being on social media. Their opinions can make you improve and make you better and different from the rest. Read their comments, look at their posts and on top of everything else take action on what you learn.

6.    Be patient. Yes it is hard to keep it when you are getting no offers, the social media marketing take time but once people start recognizing you, you won’t complain.

7.    Have a schedule. Make a time table. Keep a note of when you are going to post stuff and do it accordingly. Do not keep any work pending and slowly but effectively you will get the popularity you deserve.

8.    Online media keeps going through a change and is a dynamic entity. In order to survive here, you must change too. Do not cling to old methods just because of their comfort. New companies are entering everyday and it is a fact that you will not be able to compete with all of them. Be humble and do not overdo anything. Just post great content and you won’t go wrong.

9.    Collaborate with your competition and they won’t remain competitors anymore. Come up with ways by which both brands can benefit. You will get noticed more as now you would have become a bigger company.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Top Keywords Social Media Buzz Online!

Effective campaigns, keyword research, deep down grilling of core-keywords, relevancy, Latent Semantic Indexing, Stemming, Long Tail Keywords, synonyms, volume and traffic, KEI etc etc all lead to gather one common thing - what is the page or site is about and what it want to achieve with SEO & Internet Marketing Techniques.

In the media world where all the leading SEO, SEM Pros are fighting for each 'word', here is an overview how the online marketing and social media buzz words as compared to top social properties such as Twitter, Myspace, Youtube, Digg & Flickr.

After looking at these charts, one can get an idea which keywords are in high demand, whats latest and which keywords are user talking about in the www.

These charts are just provided to give you a birds eye view, no guarantees of accuracy, all info is brought to you by sitevolume.com ( we are not anyway associated with the said site)

Digg's latest SEO / SEM buzz shows PPC is the top keyword searched and/or talked about, followed by SEM


Flickr's latest trending buzz shows SEM is the top keyword searched and/or talked about with no major competition as surveyed: 


Myspace users also talk about SEM and it is the top keyword online:  


Here comes Twitter's latest internet marketing buzz shows PPC is the top keyword searched and/or talked about, followed by SEM, chart a bit matching with Digg


Last but not the least Youtube's latest online marketing buzz shows SEM is the top keyword searched and/or talked about, followed by SMO, 


so now its upto all those search marketers, twitters and buzz creators online to take what they wish to extract from the analysis drawn.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Top 10 Social Networking Websites & Forums

With UK’s leading social networking site Bebo.com, previously acquired by AOL(America On Line) in March 2008, entering India's online activity, lets checkout the US market share capitalization of Top Social Networking sites:


Note: The Hitwise data featured is based on US market share of visits as defined by the IAB, which is the percentage of online traffic to the domain or category, from the Hitwise sample of 10 million US internet users. Hitwise measures more than 1 million unique websites on a daily basis, including sub-domains of larger websites. Hitwise categorizes websites into industries on the basis of subject matter and content, as well as market orientation and competitive context. The market share of visits percentage does not include traffic for all sub-domains of certain websites that could be reported on separately.

Monday, May 26, 2008

Biggest Spammer online against MySpace lost the battle.

MySpace is emerging the winner of a $230 million judgment against a spammer in what's believed to be the largest antispam case ever.

The ruling came after defendants Sanford Wallace -- the notorious and self-appointed "Spam King" -- and Walter Rines failed to appear in the U.S. District Court in the Central District of California on Monday.

"MySpace has zero tolerance for those who attempt to act illegally on our site," Hemanshu Nigam, the social network site's chief security officer, said in a statement. "We thank the court for serving justice upon defendants Wallace and Rines and we remain committed to punishing those who violate the law and try to harm our members."

The judgment includes awards under the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, which limits per-message damages to $100. The Federal Trade Commission updated earlier this week to make it easier for consumers to determine who is sending e-mail marketing messages

view story here

Friday, March 28, 2008

Yahoo Stand with Google for OpenSocial Network

Yahoo said on Tuesday it is backing a program by rival Google to make software work fluidly across different social networks, and will create a joint foundation to promote the effort.

The normally fierce competitors are working together in the OpenSocial network, which Google formed in November to lure Web software developers and other social network sites away from the emerging market leader in social networks, Facebook Inc.

Many social networks -- including News Corp's MySpace, Friendster and LinkedIn -- support OpenSocial, a set of technical specifications that lets software developers build applications such as games and photo shows that can run on any social network, expanding the audience for such software.

However, neither Facebook nor Microsoft Corp, which gave Facebook $240 million in backing last year, has signed up to support OpenSocial. Microsoft, which has mounted a $42 billion hostile takeover bid for Yahoo, also has an agreement to sell advertising on Facebook's site.

Source : Yahoo News

Friday, March 14, 2008

AOL storms into Social Marketing Space with Bebo buy

AOL sent to its competitors on Mar. 13 after it forked over $850 million for California online social network Bebo, the third-largest such site in the U.S. behind Facebook and MySpace.
The acquisition gives AOL's parent company, Time Warner (TWX), access to Bebo's predominantly teen audience, as well as providing a platform to compete against the other social networks in the battle for online advertising revenue.
Web 2.0 offerings such as social networks are growing faster than their better-established online counterparts.
Launched three years ago, Bebo now boast 40 million users worldwide. Its growth is buoyed by its popularity with pre-teens and young teenagers, who have flocked to the site as older Internet users have turned to MySpace and Facebook. According to Nielsen Online, unique visits to Bebo in January topped 7.1 million, a 60% increase from the same period last year.

Read the full story at BusinessWeek

Saturday, December 22, 2007

Web 2.0 Indian Social Media Networking Updates

Top Social Networking sites with Indian presence:
1. MySpace (US)
2. Orkut ( Mostly in India and Brazil)
3. Facebook (US)
4. Linkedin (Professional Networking)
5. Friendster (US)
6. BigADDA (India)
7. Rediff Connexions
The growing Web2.0 boom and the social media enthusiasts have a lot to tell.Here is a news from Businessweek, which shows why India is at the top of social media marketing and where is the web going next....

For the past year, global networking sites have been growing in popularity among young Indians. According to JuxtConsult, a New Delhi-based online research and advisory company, 44% of Indian online traffic uses the Internet just for social networking. Google's (GOOG) Orkut is the most popular social networking site in India, with a 64% market share. Facebook is also winning many Indian fans, especially students.
India is as hooked on social networking as any other country. Part of the reason is easier broadband connectivity. A 2007 report by the software industry association group Nasscom estimates broadband subscribers—currently 1 million—will hit 20 million in three years. By 2010, the total number of Internet users in India will grow to 100 million, from 40 million now. This will surely enhance virtual hangout plays like the social networking sites.


Read the full story here at Businessweek.

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

US Presidential Candidate's Online promotion campaign

If we believe in News, there is some Confusion over US Presidential Candidate's Online promotion campaign.

Republican presidential candidate of Mitt Romney who is also the former Massachusetts governor may be surprised or rather worried to see the way his online marketing/ brand building campaign's stats.
Everyone of us could react strange if such a thing could happen to you!

According to according to Nielsen Online,reported to show some banner advertisements of the candidate on a rather irrelevant or objectionable site, which is a major concern for the reputation of the candidate as US elections are coming by.

This is an example of uncontrolled media spend and zero analytics application.
Simply automation of media buys or putting the money which is asked does not fit to a successful online advertisement/ brand building campaign.

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Yahoo joins hands with Bebo ( Social Media Marketing)

Yahoo Ties with Bebo taking the initiative to boost its advertising revenues.Bebo is social media website and the effort to capitaize on such web 2.0 advertising shows the eagerness of Yahoo to be there first to reap most.

Although Google's deal with MySpace and Microsoft inking another with Facebook makes Yahoo a third one, its still a win win situtation for both ( Yahoo and Bebo).

Yahoo is looking forward with its behavioural targeting technology, which allows it to serve content matching ads for the audience.Considering the demography, Bebo has 18m+ profiles/visitors mostly in the age group of 13-24.

The search functionality is already powered by Yahoo!

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Rediff Foreys Info Social Media Marketing

Google - Orkut and YouTube, MySpace, and now Rediff in the Social Share Networking Arena.

According to Economic Times,

Buoyed by the growing popularity of social networking and content sharing sites like Orkut and Youtube, Rediff.com today joined the bandwagon by launching a social content sharing platform --iShare--to publish and share videos, music and images.
iShare is a multimedia social content sharing platform for the users and would also enable the professional content owners to distribute their work.
"Multimedia growth is driving the internet in a big way and by bringing together audio, video and images through 'iShare' we are targeting maximum online users," Rediff.com Chairman and CEO Ajit Balakrishnan told the media.
Rediff.com, which currently claims 40 per cent of the internet users visiting its various verticals, is targeting over 50 per cent of people accessing internet in this country with the help of this new initiative and leverage form the multimedia boom.

Complete Story Here

Monday, July 2, 2007

Build your own brand using Blog !!

Online Brand Building goes Web 2.0

Now anyone can build a brand online. All you have to do is generate content, build trust and keep consistency and enthusiasm. The internet will take care of the rest if you have anything unique.

Here is a news that supports the same funda,

When ITV announced the £20 million revamp of its website last month, the inclusion of user-generated content formed part of its plans. Even large media owners with access to huge amounts of content cannot, it seems, afford to overlook UGC in Web 2.0. The rapid rise of social networking and UGC sites such as YouTube, MySpace, Bebo, Facebook and Flickr has been discussed ad nauseum, but the speed with which they have built vast audiences and changed the internet landscape remains mind-boggling. YouTube was, after all, only formed in February 2005 and bought by Google 18 months later for $1.65 billion.

Blogs, mash-ups, online reviews, peer-to-peer Q&As, video clips, social networks, Second Life avatars ... in its many manifestations, UGC is proliferating. Small wonder, then, that Time magazine named ‘you’ as its person of the year for 2006, and the US-based Advertising Age anointed “the consumer” as agency of the year. Of course, despite the accolades, UGC is nothing new. What has changed is the ease with which it is possible to create and disseminate content. Widespread broadband penetration, camera phones, easy uploading of content, cheap digital editing software, a rapidly increasing choice of websites welcoming UGC, changing attitudes to social communication, blogs by the million: there are many factors driving the UGC explosion.

Detailed news here

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Google in Political - Public Policy Support

Everyone was there except Google,
Its the politics and the social space. But now its open for all... checkout this news on Google's Policy Blog

According to PCMAG

The technology industry has always been quick to champion or condemn certain legislative initiatives, and Google on Monday added its two cents to topics like net neutrality and immigration with the launch of a new blog dedicated to public policy.

Google started the public policy blog internally in April "to limber up our blogging muscles," Andrew McLaughlin, director of public policy and government affairs, wrote on the site.

The search engine giant has touched on policy issues on its official Google blog in recent months, with posts about its executives testifying on Capitol Hill or presidential candidate visits to Google's California campus.

Future posts will likely touch on issues like net neutrality, censorship, innovation regulation, immigration, R&D, national security, and trade.

What you believe ? Is Google learning from MySpace how to enter into indirect politics or is it an honest social service ? Or is it the migrants issue thats making waves around ?

Monday, April 9, 2007

MySpace and US Election Campaign

MySpace.com launched a presidential campaign 2008 targetting online users. Basic aim seems to educate people. This is a new concept and an example of using social media to learn the trends, interest and in some what sense promote the social cause. This mega event has seen some unique was to present each side and to give justification on a platform whom everybody can access.

This MySpace tool with a unique stand is creating a buzz not only for the candidates but also for the site and the social marketing concepts.

Such an organized effort to secure nomination and election of candidates for forthcoming US elections, everyone is trying everything they can. For each of the following candidate, you can see the profile, related information and show your support too.

Rudy Giuliani

Hillary Clinton

Joe Biden

John Edwards

John McCain

Dennis Kucinich

Ron Paul

Mitt Romney

Barack Obama

Duncan Hunter

Chris Dodd

Bill Richardson

Tommy Thompson